WTO's assault on India

The US has serious problems with India, mostly related to programmes providing a lifeline to vulnerable farmers and ensuring food security of …

Addressing internal and external market challenges key for supporting India’s apple farmers

Measures like market intervention schemes for remunerative prices, improved institutional support & comprehensive strategies to resolve value …

Big Pharma and intellectual property: Why is India afraid of compulsory licences?

While rich nations are discovering the virtues of compulsory drug licences, India has resolutely turned its back on this tool despite nudges from …

Intellectual property and COVID-19 medicines: Why a WTO waiver may not be enough

A waiver might not allow all developing countries to secure medicines and other anti-COVID technologies in a timely way

Stopping subsidies will be fresh blow for India’s struggling small fishers: Experts

Fisher community claims already vulnerable fishermen will not be able to access subsidises even if WTO negotiations turn in their favour  

Stockholm+50: How do we prepare for the next half century

When we mark the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Stockholm conference, we need to discuss consumption and production in a globalised world

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: How global and local experience would play out in WTO top job

Okonjo-Iweala would be in a position to use her multifaceted experiences to energise the WTO’s 164 members to work harder to achieve the …

Can vaccines become as cheap as generics?

Unlike with drugs, freeing up patents will not make it any easier to manufacture vaccines for COVID-19, says Cipla’s Hamied

Dummy’s guide to how trade rules affect access to COVID-19 vaccines

The WTO is considering whether to temporarily waive certain rules about TRIPS, to allow more countries access to vaccines, drugs needed to …

Coronavirus vaccines: Tech transfer is the new mantra

A tech transfer hub for mRNA vaccines is being set up in South Africa, a first for the continent; but will the pharmaceutical companies play ball?

Proposed WTO reform aims to bully developing nations: Civil society members

Reform proposed at Ministerial Conference of World Trade Organisation will undermine participation & say of developing countries, feel experts

Unfair fields: Asymmetric WTO rules let US inflate cotton subsidies must be reformed

Cottton farmers in India and other Global South countries, like the Afican C-4 of benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, at peril …

Unfair trade barriers will hinder climate consensus

Carbon border agreements are in many ways modern instruments of imperialism that punish developing nations for making slower progress towards …

COVID-19: WTO pushes long-term agenda of liberalising MSMEs

World Trade Organisation recommends digitalisation, transparency, trade facilitation and finance of MSMEs to revive economy